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CAV. L. BICCHIERI: Your Excellency; m “honourable oo
colleagues representing colonies other than those forming part or hex
British Empire, with that stately distinction which char cherisa® t :
have been pleased to assign to me the honoured task\pfZreplying to
Your Excellency. I desire on their behalf as well as o 0 own, to
express our sincere gratitude for the hospitality offered t and’ for
the arrangements made for our comfort. And it is with a spiri
heart sincerely moved that I address your Excellency the Governor of
this Colony and President of this Conference, not only to convey to
you our most cordial thanks in return for your expressions of welcome,
but also for all you have done to help this Conference, both for its
organisation and its future development.
We promise you that in this Conference nothing will be left
unattempted which can help to stamp out the most common parasites
and disease that tend to destroy plants, stocks, and crops in general.
We shall also extend our best efforts to further good inter-colonial
relationships and science and the prosperity of those colonies which
are actively interested in the matters before this Conference. The
spirit of solid organisation and co-operation always alive in this country
for the attainment of an object near its heart I notice with gratification
is also present on this occasion. Your Excellency’s words, full of
warmth and encouragement and confidence to this nascent Conference,
cannot but spur us to attain really satisfactory results.
To Kenya I feel there will belong to-morrow the great glory of
being the first to give life to a combined agricultural, cotton, and
entomological conference, destined to become a creative centre which
will radiate vital forces for the production and development of the
great natural resources of the immense tracts of Africa.
Your Excellency, it gives me great pleasure to return thanks to
you for your great kindness in coming from Mombasa especially to
open this Conference, for your very kind and encouraging remarks
contained in the speech you have just made when you declared the
Conference open.
I also wish to thank the Secretary, Colonel Walker, for the
excellent arrangements made for the general conduct of the business
of the Conference.
His Excellency, on the conclusion of Cavalieri 1.. Bicchieri's
speech, was introduced individually to each of the delegates.
The Conference then adjourned for a few minutes and a
photograph was taken.